They just push through it without barbs on it. Wound up putting stays every three ft.
Are we all talking about the same stuff?
I first put up Gaucho and Redbrand High Tensile (all 4 barb) 20 years ago when I bought my place. I have a 125 acres and along with cross fencing and boundry fences I have a few miles of it up. It is still tight and I wouldn't go back to using the heavy 12 guage for nothing.
I don't understand about not being able to stretch it. I stretch a 1/4 mile at a time using fence stretchers or a come-a-long and get it tight enough to yank steel posts out of low places if I'm not careful. It don't sag, and the only breakage I've had is if a tree falls on it. I have some Redbrand Hi-tensile barb wire behind my house that I know is at least 27 years old (because that's when I got marrried, Nov 15 1980) and it isn't rusty at all. In fact I took some of it up this summer and reused it to build a new hay pen. I stretched the crap out of it and it didn't break. Sounds like a guitar string.
So what gives???????????
I don't have religious convictions about hi-tensile barbwire, I'm just curious how our opinions are so different :lol: :lol: